With thanks to our auction lot donors

To all our attendees, bidders and even the bots: thank you for taking an interest in our little but rather special dinner. Whether you joined us at the table, raised a bid or simply crawled the website with suspicious enthusiasm, we are delighted you stopped by. The company was splendid; the bots, mercifully, required no pudding.

First and foremost, a massive thank you to the School for handing over the keys to the Dining Hall, the Chapel, the quad, and—most crucially—your patience. Hosting a room full of Old Blues, all of whom are utterly convinced they have historical claim to one very specific chair, is an act of sheer bravery. You handled our collective nostalgia with absolute grace.

To John Williams, our Honorary Secretary: thank you for pulling off yet another flawlessly organized dinner. At this point, the law of averages dictates that at least one of these should have been a mild disaster, so we are reluctantly forced to conclude that you actually just know what you're doing.

Finally, a deeply sincere thank you to Isobel Pelling, Colin Russell, Joshua Sze, Stephania Ohira, and Celia Blake-Phillips for keeping the entire ship afloat. Yours is the kind of meticulous, behind-the-scenes magic that people only ever notice when something suddenly catches fire—which is exactly why no one noticed a thing. We are incredibly grateful.